Death of a great leader to the Hmong people and also to some Laotians loyal to the old monarchy government.

I guess the Laotian government can sleep better knowing Vang Pao is no more!.....

http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/06/better-than-botox-7-reasons-to-hav...

Rest in peace General. They say "one man terrorist is another man freedom fighter."

its sad that gen vang pao is gone, there are some negative speculation about his leadership and past history from many people but many of those claims are unproven. his leadership while he was alive was like a father figure. he would attend events and lecture about divorce, promote education and unity because in hmong society even miao there's clans and he wants all clans to keep it real and cool with one another. during the war in laos there were many other hmong leaders or leadership but many died fighting and gen vang pao happens to be one of the wisest to make it out alive from that war in fact he wanted to stay behind and face annihilation but felt the need to continue his leadership because many hmong still needed him and looked to him for guidance. the hmong youth might not know much about him but they do know one thing and that is that he wanted freedom for all. communism was just not good enough. colonialism was the better choice, democracy was the best so he went with that and convince many hmongs and laos to fight for it. of course many other hmongs like the idea for communism and so they fought for it too. gen vang pao is a national hero to the hmong but in the hmong community there are also many capable community leaders that will continue to bring hmongs and other asians to help out each other.

longhang wrote on 9^th Jan, 2011 at 1:04pm:


well said 

*update, yes hmongs glorious leader gen vang pao will be buried at the Arlington national cemetery.